Not at all tacky. I think it's ridiculous when my bank sends me two letters in two different envelopes, I think receiving two letters from the same friend in two envelopes on the same day would be even sillier. I'm pretty practical about these sorts of things, though.

At US$2 per letter, I'd go with tacky every day. Postage prices are ridiculous.

That said, I actually don't think it's tacky. It's economical and makes perfect sense. I'd find it exceedingly odd if somebody sent me two letters/card in two different envelopes on the same day.

I agree with the above.

While I wouldn't be offended to receive two separate envelopes, I'd think it weird and impractical. I'd spend zero time being offended at a two-in-one because I'd be so cheered that someone thought to send me anything at all!

Thanks for all the input! We ended up doing two envelopes mainly because unexpected things happened and we haven't gotten a chance to pick up our Christmas cards, yet (we did them online and chose the local pickup option). We didn't want to wait to send the thank you cards, so those were mailed first.

I recently sent my wedding thank you cards. I addressed the envelope (informal names) and then put it inside the christmas card which was then "properly" addressed. It didn't increase my postage costs (as both were relatively thin and light), and meant that I finally had the impetus to get my thank you cards out - and actually send my christmas cards "early" for me!

How long ago was your wedding?

It is rude and tacky to include a TY note for a gift giving occasion such as a wedding when people took the time to attend and bring you a gift and then combine a TY with a holiday greeting? A TY should be one in itself to thank someone for their attendance/gift, not a convenient way to combine Merry Christmas with Thanks for the blender.

We got married in mid-September. I was quite ill after the wedding (I have ME and hit a major "crash") and pretty much stayed in bed for a month.

The thank you cards *were* separate cards, in a separate envelope, placed inside the Christmas card envelope. Each had a separate (different) thank you message, handwritten and personal to the person(s) involved.

I'm just glad now I've got them out and haven't got the guilt about not having sent my thank you cards in a timely fashion, as everyone was so generous. People have, of course, had personal thank yous when we have seen them in the interim, and I sent a couple of emails (enclosing the link to the photo site etc) to people explaining why the "proper" thank yous were late and why I hadn't been "around" much.

I could go either way. I can't see myself getting offended to receive a TY card + Xmas card in the same envelope; a TY written on the Xmas card; or two completely separate envelopes from the same person.

Honestly I think I personally would probably send them as two separate envelopes. It would be for my own peace of mind and organizational issues. I would probably have a list of Xmas cards to send and a list of TY cards to send, and I would keep the two stacks separate and keep counting them and matching them with the list. My little brain could not handle putting two cards in the same envelope, I think...

It would be fine with me, as long as they were both joyous-occasions cards. That being said, I wouldn't be impressed if a HC waited 7 or 8 months to send a TY note, figuring that they could piggyback on their Christmas cards.

It would be fine with me, as long as they were both joyous-occasions cards. That being said, I wouldn't be impressed if a HC waited 7 or 8 months to send a TY note, figuring that they could piggyback on their Christmas cards.

The idea that the thank you notes were delayed to be mailed together with the Christmas cards wouldn't even cross my mind. I would wonder if something had happened to the couple (as in this case), if they had forgotten or if life had gotten in the way.

If I got them both together, I'd assume that they struggled to get the thank-you notes done, decided that by gum they were NOT sending them *after* the Christmas cards, and that they then kicked in and made sure to finish them all. And mailed them together.

Personally, I would send the thank-you separately, especially a *wedding* thank-you.

As the recipient, I might make a small negative mental note if someone wrote their thank-you on the inside of the Christmas card--and then probably forget it or only remember it as an oddity; probably would think "how smart" if they put the thank-you note (with or without its envelope) in the Xmas card.

Do you mean one single envelope for both cards, or the cards in their respective envelopes which the individuals' names on then both of those in one main envelope which will have the postal address on it?